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The Sharon Steel Hoop Company was organized in October, 1900, for the manufacture principally of 
Cooperage Hoop by the late Morris Bachman of Sharon, Pa., who was its president and direct head from the 
time of its organization until his death in December, 1909. 

The original plant consisted of an Eight Inch and a Nine Inch Hoop Mill to which was added shortly 
thereafter a Ten Inch Continuous Hoop Mill. The Company originally purchased its billets in the open market 
but in 1904 Open Hearth Furnaces and a Blooming Mill were added to the plant equipment, since which time 
it has manufactured its own steel. 

The equipment today consists of Eight, Nine and Ten Inch Hoop Mills and a Fourteen Inch Strip Mill 
and a department in which is manufactured a large amount of Cold Formed Channels for use in the construc- 
tion of fire proof buildings and Corner Bead for protecting exposed plastered corners; a Galvanizing Depart- 
ment of the highest efficiency and of large capacity; and two Pickling Shops. 

The output today consists not only of Cooperage Hoops but of Strips and Bands for all uses from % 
in. to 15 in. wide in all gauges hot rolled. In addition to finished material, it manufactures Berolling and 
Forging Billets and Sheet Bars. The finished material is used for such an infinite variety of purposes as to 
make it impossible to catalogue them but its principal uses are for cooperage and woodenware purposes, for 
the manufacture of hardware and automobile parts, and strips for use in the manufacture of cold rolled strip 
steel. The present capacity in the finishing mills is about 140,000 tons per annum. It employs more than 
twelve hundred men with an annual payroll of somewhat more than one million dollars. 

The Company does business in practically every state in the Union and in Canada, but has not made 
serious efforts in the export trade, principally because the high excellence of its output has secured a domestic 
demand sufficient to practically at all times take its entire production. 

The ownership and directorate of the Company is and always has been in Sharon. The properties occupy 
about twenty-five acres in Pennsylvania and the Company owns about twenty-seven acres in Trumbull Co., 
Ohio, at present unoccupied. 

The unprecedented high stage of the water in the flood of 1913 submerged the major portion of the 
plant. The plant had never before been under water nor had any part of it ever before been flooded so that 
it is reasonable to suppose that it will not again'bejsubject to these conditions. 

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record. We have withstood flood and panic with the same 
fortitude. However, we must confess that our greatest loss 
and greatest distress was due to floods. No panic has caus- 
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CONTENTS 

The Flood in Sharon, Farrell, Wheatland, West Middlesex 

and Yicinity — Heroic Deeds of Rescue — The Preventative 

Against Another Flood— Relief Work— The Work of 

Rehabilitation — Incidents of the Flood 



On the night of Easter Sunday, March 
23, 1913, the people of the Shenango 
Valley went to their beds as unconcern- 
ed, as free from care and worry as had 
been their custom for years. On Mon- 
day morning, they awoke to face the 
start of the worst rise of waters that 
section of Pennsylvania had ever ex- 
perienced. 

One week after that quiet Easter the 
people of Sharon, Farrell, Wheatland, 
Sharpsville, West Middlesex, and 
Greenville, the towns either suffering 
directly or most affected by the flood, 
were holding services of thanksgiving 
in the churches for their deliverance 
from the grip of the devastating waters, 
and the great disaster of 1913 had 
passed into history, leaving behind it a 
wake of damage and desolation, ruin 
and heart burning, and heroism. 

Though the flood fear had reached out 
and touched all the towns of the She- 
nango Valley, it was in the Borough of 
Sharon, the largest of the municipali- 
ties, that the flood wrought its real 
havoc. The others were threatened and 
expected to bear their quota of the 
damage which seemed inevitable, but 
it was Sharon that paid the heaviest 
toll to the angry waters. Because of 
this, it is the situation in Sharon, itself, 
that this history will first review. 



Sharon is located in the heart of the 
Shenango Valley, about 40 miles from 
the great Pymatuning Swamp, the head- 
waters of the Shenango river. It is the 
damming of this swamp that is now 
occupying the attention of the State of 
Pennsylvania as a preventive measure 
from future floods. Sharon is primar- 
ily a steel and manufacturing city of 
about 18,000 souls, the largest portion 
of the 40,000 persons who lived in the 
district threatened by the flood. It is 
built on two hills between which flows 
the Shenango. While a large part of 
the residence district is divided between 
these hills, there are more than 750 
families living in the lowlands on the 
banks of the river. In this section, too, 
is the congested business district of the 
town. It was this part of Sharon which 
was, for a time, almost wiped out of 
existence. 

WILD RUMORS PREVALENT 

Though rumors of every sort were 
published in papers all over the country 
giving the death list in Sharon and vi- 
cinity at from 500 down, it seems to be 
a well established fact that only one per- 
son, Mrs. Logan Wilding, of Vine street, 
was lost in the catastrophe. Conditions 
were such in the flood swept valley 
during those terrible nights and days, 
families separated, whole sections of 



towns cut off, communication almost at 
a standstill and practically complete 
darkness at night, that it was impossi- 
ble, then, to gather anything like ac- 
curate data. Report followed report 
and at the time anything seemed true. 
In the light of time and an opportunity 
for calmer and more complete investiga- 
tion and summing up of conditions it 
seems safe to say that the actual loss of 
life, property damage, rainfall, height 
of water and general results of the flood 
were as follows : 

Life loss, 1. 

Property damage (including loss of 
buildings, damage to streets, wage loss, 
railroads and industrial establishments "> 
$2,000,000. 

Maximum height by days : 

March 24— 9.20 ft. 5 :10 p. m. 

March 25—16.48 ft. 7 :45 p. m. 

March 26—18.60 ft. 10 :00 a. m. 

March 27—16.87 ft. 10:30 a. m. 

March 28—14.40 ft. 8 :00 a. m. 

March 29—11.40 ft. 8 :00 a. m. 

March 30— 8.65 ft. 8 :00 a. m. 

March 31— 6.80 ft. 12 :00 m. 

It is the purpose of this story of the 
Shenango Valley flood to give the pub- 
lic an accurate idea of the disaster, to 
describe the conditions as they existed 
during that week of anxiety and uncer- 
tainty, to sketch as fully as possible in 




A VIEW OF RIVER FROM PROSPECT HEIGHTS WHILE WATERS WERE RISING 



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CHESTNUT STREET BRIDGE AT LOW WATER 



the space allowed the many instances of 
heroic rescue work, and to tell how the 
Shenango Valley towns fought out their 
own salvation and rehabilitation after 
the waters had gone down and left them 
scarred and battered and so crippled 
commercially and industrially that it 
seemed hopeless to think of normal 
business again for many months. 

TOWNS OFTEN THREATENED 

Sharon and the towns of the Shenan- 
go Valley had been threatened with 
high water often enough in the years 
gone by, but never until the flood of 
1913 had the waters risen high enough 
to threaten life and property. For this 
reason no flood warnings had been sent 
out. The people saw the Shenango 
river rising, saw it reach the high water 
mark of 15.60 feet in 1893, but they did 
not worry. They felt so safe, because 
nothing of the kind had ever happened 
before, that even the heavy rain on 
Monday afternoon which caused the 
river to swell with unprecedented 
speed, did not cause any fear of danger 
among the mass of the people. In fact, 
they went to bed that night even with- 
out making any particular preparations 
for a great flood. But before Tuesday's 
dawn disaster had overtaken them. 

By midnight, Monday, the Shenango 
river had broken its banks and was ris- 
ing at the rate of 6 inches an hour. It 
had started to rain Sunday morning; 
Monday the rain became a near cloud- 
burst in the afternoon ; Tuesday and 
"Wednesday it continued to pour and 
only with the cessation of the rainfall 
on Thursday did the fear of the people 
become lessened. 

So sudden was the rise of waters from 
nightfall to midnight of Monday that 
the cry of a flooded city coming from 
the west side of the river just after 
midnight sounded a note of panic 
among the unprepared people. The 
residents of the section known as the 
Southward were the first to be affected. 



They were, many of them, caught in 
their beds when the water reached the 
first floor of their homes. Those first 




HIGH WATER MARKS AT STATE 
STREET BRIDGE 



early hours of Tuesday were the begin- 
ning of three days and nights of terror. 



FIRST DANGER TUESDAY 

About 12:30 Tuesday morning came 
the first definite intimation of danger in 
a hurry call to the fire department from 
a woman on Willow street on the West 
Side. She telephoned that she was alone 
in her house with her infant daughter, 
that the waters had risen above the 
first floor and that she must be taken 
off or they would both be drowned. At 
the rate the water was rising another 
half hour would have meant the death 
of both the mother and her baby. 

Fred Vanderholt, chief of the fire de- 
partment, at once ordered Firemen 
Fruit Sankey and John Milksop to go 
to the aid of the marooned couple. The 
firemen were able to cross the State 
street bridge which later was complete- 
ly under water. After crossing the 
bridge, they managed to wade within 
several hundred feet of the house ; then 
they swam. The two men took the 
woman and her baby from the second 
story windows of their house. In swim- 
ming back with them, they were twice 
almost carried away by the current, but 
they finally reached shallow water and 
were able to carry the almost uncon- 
scious woman and girl to safety. This 
was the first rescue of the flood. Sankey 
and Millsop were the first of many 
heroes in the hours to come. From 
then on, not a fireman, policeman, city 
official or able bodied man in Sharon 
slept for many hours and there was not 
a moment during the day or night until 
Thursday that some persons were not 
being taken from flooded houses or dis- 
tricts on the edge of the widening flood 
zone to safety. 

When the cold grey of Tuesday's 
dawn gave light enough for the people 
of Sharon to see the expanse of the now 
unchecked Shenango, the start of the 
panic and rush of people for safety be- 
gan. Saving what household goods they 
could, the residents of the inundated 
district began a steady procession to the 
high ground to the east and west. The 




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State street bridge, while at that time 
still passable, appeared dangerous and 
the refugees, for the most part, preferred 
to take to the hills back of them rather 
than cross the Shenango. This divided 
the city, making two camps, the people 
on the "West Side going to the hill on 
the west and those on the East Side 
climbing to the hill on the east. 

AREA OF FLOOD 

The inundated district at the height 
of the flood was bounded on the west 
by Irvine avenue, across the Erie tracks, 
and on the east by the tracks of the 
P. & L. E. railroad. North and 
South it stretched for miles, as far as 
the eye could see. Through this sec- 
tion people were able to wade away 
from the flood on Tuesday morning. 
Using wagons when they could, boats 
when they could not. Carrying what 
they were able to pick up of their pos- 
sessions on their backs, men, women 
and children made an endless procession 
that day from the lowlands to the hills. 
There were approximately 750 families 
in the district which was completely un- 
der water. Many of these got away 
Tuesday, others stayed in their homes, 
moving to the second stories, and later 
had to be taken off in boats. 

Prom the first realization by the resi- 
dents on the high ground that the flood 
threatened to wipe out the lowland sec- 
tion of the city, relief camps were or- 
ganized. Schools, churches and homes 
on both sides of the river were turned 
into temporary dormitories and feeding 
stations with the women of Sharon act- 
ing as nurses, cooks and comforters of 
the unfortunates. 

In the meantime, the Shenango river 
had risen by leaps and bounds. From 
a height on Tuesday morning at dawn 
of 12 feet it had risen by Tuesday mid- 
night to 18 feet and the State street 
bridge, the principal thoroughfare over 
the river, was under 18 inches of water 
which raced across it with the speed of 




STATE STREET BRIDGE AT LOW WATER 



a mill stream. Sharon had never seen 
the like before. 

RESIDENTS PANIC STRICKEN 

It seems odd, in view of the condi- 
tions as they now exist, to say that the 
people were panic stricken. But they 
were. Many of them believed that the 
entire town would go. There were re- 
ports of deaths coming in every hour, al- 
most every moment. Men who had gone 
down to business on Tuesday morning 
found that they had no business to at- 
tend to and when they attempted to go 
to their homes a few hours later they 
could not, so rapid was the rise of the 
waters. Most of the telephone lines and 
other means of communication were not 
working. Wives and mothers, alone in 
their houses, even though they knew 
that no danger was likely to reach them 
in the district on the hills, were frantic. 
They did not know whether their hus- 
bands and sons were safe or drowned in 
the rush of the now raging Shenango. 
And so garbled were the reports that 
spread like wildfire that their anxiety 
was further increased by the news of 
death and disaster that reached them. 




CROWDS ON EAST STATE STREET WEEN WATER WAS AT ITS HEIGHT 



From the time Firemen Sankey and 
Millsop rescued the woman and child 
on Willow street until early Wednesday 
morning, the situation was in the hands 
of the fire and police departments 
without any regularly organized effort 
at rescue and relief other than the 
guardians of the city were able to give. 
But their departments were soon taxed 
to the limit of their capacity and while 
they did yoeman work, the situation 
was soon far beyond anything that 
they, with their small forces, could do. 

BOATS ARE USED 

Thomas Davis, assistant chief of the 
fire department, obtained the first boat 
used in the streets of Sharon on Tues- 
day afternoon. It was launched north 
of State street, manned by Davis, 
"Twin" O'Neil and another volunteer. 
Then began a sight that in a few hours 
became common, the picture of row- 
boats navigating the streets of the city 
and taking persons from the second 
stories of their water-surrounded homes 
and from their roofs. But this one boat 
was used all Tuesday to aid those per- 
sons in the places of greatest danger 
only. It was not until Wednesday 
morning that the real work of boat 
rescue began. 

But even on Tuesday, while this sin- 
gle boat was carrying its human freight 
from danger to safety, drays and wag- 
ons were driving through water above 
their wheels to such sections as they 
could reach in the entire district along 
the river front which was all under 
water. They made their trips south of 
State street and that part of the city 
near the Budd avenue bridge as long 
as they could, but within a few hours 
after noon, Tuesday, this section was so 
flooded that wagons could no longer 
traverse it and the boat was used to 
reach those in the most precarious 
situations. 

It was on Wednesday morning that 
prominent officials and citizens took 
active charge of the situation. Acting 



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Borough Officials Who Worked Heroically 




FIRE CHIEF FEED VANDERHOLT 

Burgess William Nightwine, who had 
been working up to this time with Fire 
Chief Vanderholt and Acting Chief of 
Police Samuel Lansdowne, then took 
complete command of the situation on 
the East Side. He worked in person in 
the flooded streets with the others. The 
West Side had been cut off completely 
from the East Side by this time and it 
was this, more than anything else, that 
led to the reports of terrible life loss, 
reports which it was impossible to con- 
firm but which at that time appeared 
more than possibly true. 

VOLUNTEER BOATSMEN RESPOND 

Mr. Nightwine 's first act on "Wednes- 
day was to order boats from the Wallis 
& Carley Co. on the East Side. The 
Borough, in years gone by, had had a 
number of boats for just such an emerg- 
ency but through long disuse they had 
decayed and were absolutely worthless. 
The boat builders constructed boats at 
the rate of more than one an hour. As 
fast as a boat was built, it was launched 
and started on its perilous journey. 

Mr. Nightwine immediately called for 



volunteers, picking and choosing men 
from the hundreds who responded and 
giving unmarried and experienced boat 
men the first preference. These men 
were divided among the boats and kept 
up the work of rescue. 

In the meantime, Hon. W. S. Palmer, 
a former member of the legislature and 
one of the most prominent and public 
spirited citizens of Sharon, who resides 
on the West Side, had taken charge of 
the situation there. It is a curious co- 
incidence that though there was no 
communication between the leaders on 
the two sides of the river, each took 
exactly the same action. Mr. Palmer 
ordered boats from the Sharon Building 
Co. and called for volunteers to man 
them. 

No tribute too strong can be paid to 
the men who fought the waters on that 
day and the days following to save their 
fellow townsmen in distress. Remember 
that among these men there were few 





STREET COMMISSIONER HARRY JENKINS 



BURGESS RALPH ROBINSON 

who had ever handled a rowboat in 
rough water. The swollen river was a 
veritable torrent and it was worth the 
life of an unskilled boatman to venture 
in it in a skiff. This did not, however, 
prevent many persons from taking their 
lives in their hands and going to the 
rescue of the marooned hundreds of 
men, women and children in the inun- 
dated part of the city. Both Mr. Pal- 
mer and Mr. Nightwine personally 
superintended the picking of the boat 
crews. They made every effort to get 
experienced men and they did succeed 
in having at least one man of ex- 
perience in rough water in charge of 
each boat. 
MAROONED ASK ASSISTANCE 

From the hills that day the watchers 
could see frantic men and women in the 
lowlands who had climbed to the roofs 
of their houses and from the housetops 
were sending signals for help. The 
water about these houses had long since 




CHIEF OF POLICE SAMUEL LANDSDOWNE 

reached the second stories of many of 
them and was above the first floors of 
others. It was to these that the boats 
went first on Wednesday. Many of the 
people taken from their perches of safe- 
ty had spent the night on their house- 
tops. They were exhausted with cold 
and exposure. Most of the women were 
hysterical and it was with the greatest 
difficulty that they were kept quietly 
in the boats. 

It is not the intention to recount at 
this time the many heroic deeds of res- 
cue that occurred during the transfering 
of these refugees to the highland, nor 
the pathetic desolation among many of 
these people who lost their all. That 
part of the story of the great flood will 
be told in another part of this history. 
Suffice it to say now that all of those 
people were brought to safety without 
the loss of but a single soul, though 
there were numerous incidents of boats 
capsizing and graphic moments when 
both rescuers and rescued looked death 
plainly in the face. 

The work of rescuing the refugees by 
boat continued throughout Thursday 
evening though the waters began on 
that day to recede. This was necessary 
because the health of those who had 
not been removed from the water- 
threatened district, was endangered by 
lack of water, fuel or provisions for 
three days. 

SHARON ISOLATED TUESDAY 

Street car and railway service was 
materially crippled by Monday night. 
From Tuesday morning until Friday, 
the street railway system was entirely 
out of commission with not a car run- 
ning on any of the lines. Train service 
was at a stand-still from Tuesday morn- 
ing until Friday noon. The exception 
to this was on the Lake Shore. This 
road, knowing the urgent need for food 
in Sharon, managed to send several 
cars of provisions on Thursday. But 



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STEEL HOOP PLANT UNDER WATER 



-Photo by Cubbison 



the last passenger train arrived in 
Sharon, over the Pennsylvania railroad, 
at 8 o'clock Tuesday morning, coming 
from the north. The first passenger 
train to reach Sharon after this came 
to Sharon Friday morning at 10:23 on 
the same road. The last train out of 
Sharon during the flood was over the 
Erie about midnight Monday and the 
first train out of Sharon after the wa- 
ters had gone down left over the freight 
line of the Lake Shore, which was 
pressed into service for a few days. This 
train left Sharon on Thursday about 
8 o 'clock at night for Youngstown. 

"Water in the power house of the 
Shenango Valley Electric Light Co., on 
Silver street, had placed Sharon in par- 
tial darkness before dawn Wednesday 
morning. On Wednesday eve the peo- 
ple were able to burn gas and many of 
them used candles and lanterns and 
lamps. But by Wednesday night water 
in the mains of the United Natural Gas 
Co. caused complete darkness with the 
exception of what dim light could be 
obtained from the more primitive meth- 
ods. The telephone service and tele- 
graph systems had been partially crip- 
pled Tuesday morning, but considering 
the unusual conditions both of these ser- 
vices of communication did splendid 
work during the flood and managed to 
keep part of their systems in working 
order. 

FIRE THREATENS CITY 

It was then, with the town in dark- 
ness, that the most threatening danger 
of the entire disaster struck Sharon — 
fire. In the four story brick warehouse 
of A. Wishart & Sons Co. on Silver 
street there was stored a great quan- 
tity of lime. The building was on the 
eastern edge of the flood zone. Water 
was already in the basement. Around 
the Wishart plant was dozens of busi- 
ness houses, storage places and two 
lumber yards. It was one of the most 
dangerous spots for a fire in the entire 
town. The water, reaching the lime, 



started a fire in the building at about 11 
o 'clock on Tuesday night. 

Never, probably, has a city depart- 
ment been called on to fight a fire under 
more discouraging conditions. There 
are but five paid members in the Sharon 
department. The rest of the complement 
is made up of volunteers. Paid and 
volunteer members were split up, some 
on one side of the river, others on the 
other. During Monday night the pump- 
ing station of the Sharon Water Co. had 
gone out of commission. With residents 
continuing to use water from the big 
reservoir about a mile from the centre 
of the town and with no means to pump 
more water into it, the supply was prac- 
tically exhaused when the firemen start- 
ed to fight the Wishart fire. 

Panic stricken by the flood fear, when 
the people of Sharon heard where the 
fire was, they were nearly crazed. A 
high wind was blowing at the time, 
threatening to sweep the flames over the 
entire business district. Sharon, flood- 
gripped and fighting for her existence, 
that night seemed doomed to destruc- 
tion by fire. 



Less than two weeks before the city 
had bought a Robinson automobile com- 
bination fire truck with pumps. This 
was its first fire. So new was the big 
auto to the Sharon firemen that W. C. 
Olive, demonstrator for the company, 
was still in Sharon instructing the fire- 
men in the use of the new machine. 

FIRE TRUCK SAVES CITY 

The auto-truck had been taken from 
fire headquarters on Chestnut street, 
when the water had entered the build- 
ing, to Frank H. Buhl's garage on East 
State street. It was manned there that 
night by Chief Vanderholt, Assistant 
Chief Thomas Davis, Fruit Sankey, 
John Millsop, and Nesbit Leipheimer. 
It made a quick run through the water- 
filled streets to the fire. The six men 
worked in a swift current up to their 
arm pits fighting the fire. They were 
making good headway when the water 
gave out. 

It was then that the panic of Sharon's 
thousands reached a frenzy of fear. 
Even people living on the hills, seeing 
the red glare in the sky mounting 




ROBINSON AUTO FIRE TRUCK THAT SAVED 
SHARON FROM A CONFLAGRATION 



-Photo by Harry Davis 



Page Eleven 



Heroes and a Heroine 




OFFICER FRANK MILLER 

higher even through the mist of rain, 
rushed to their residences and started 
to getting out their household goods 
when the word went out that the water 
had failed. There seemed no hope, then, 
that the city could possibly be saved. 

But it was at that critical juncture, 
through the quick wit of Chief Vander- 
holt and the ready appreciation of the 
demonstrator, Olive, that the big auto 
truck more than paid for herself and 
saved the city of Sharon. Vanderholt, 
seeing so much water all about him and 
wondering if it would not be possible 
to utilize it, turned to Olive and asked 
if it would not be practicable to drop 
an intake pipe from the machine into 
the water in the streets and get lines 
of hose to the flames. Olive grasped 
the chief's suggestion like a flash. The 
big red machine was backed into water 
up to her hubs, the intake pipe was 
dropped, the pumps started and within 
a half hour the crazed residents were 
told that the fire was under control. 

The ingenuity of Chief Vanderholt 
and the fortunate purchase of the big 
Robinson machine by the city had saved 
Sharon. 



HERALD BUILDING FALLS 

It was on Wednesday that the crash 
of falling buildings added further to 
the fear of the people. From Monday 
on, the surface of the Shenango was one 
mass of swiftly floating debris. Houses, 
barns, pieces of roofs, dead animals and 
trees were being carried by in sight of 
the thousands of watchers on both sides 
of the water. But it was not until 
Wednesday that the possibility of the 
flood's undermining and destroying big 
business blocks and supposedly staunch 
residences was brought home to the peo- 
ple of Sharon. 

On that day the two worst wrecks 
of the flood occurred — the falling of the 
"V" bridge and the destruction of the 
three story brick building of the Sharon 
Herald. 

The crash of the falling Herald build- 
ing was heard all over the city on both 
sides of the river and again the terror 





"TED" BUCKLEY 



MISS MARY LOGAN, TELEPHONE HEROINE 

which had begun with the water rush, 
and had increased with the Wishart 
fire, became again acute at the noise of 
the falling building. 

The Herald was located on River 
street at a point which was commonly 
known as "Herald Square", the junc- 
tion of River, Pitt and Shenango streets. 
River street did not belie its name on 
Wednesday evening. It was, in fact, a 
rushing river, with all the force of a 
hydraulic mining hose. At its eastern 
end the street takes a silght rise. This 
held the water, which at that time was 
already a foot higher than the Shenan- 
go river itself back to a certain extent. 
Next to the Herald building was a va- 
cant lot. The opening acted like a waste 
pipe. The swollen stream, speeding 
along River street, found the outlet and 
took a foot drop through it in a rushing 
effort to get back to its parent, the She- 
nango. 

The rush of this water through the 
narrow lot increased its force. It was 




ASSISTANT FIRE CHIEF THOMAS DAVIS 

as if a gang of men were playing a gi- 
gantic hose on the massive foundations 
of the Herald building. Nothing built 
by human hands could have withstood 
the undermining strength of this 
stream. It ate its way into the bricks 
and mortar and washed them loose. At 
1 :30 o'clock that afternoon the rear end 
of the building fell into the river, swept 
from its foundations. The Herald own- 
ers did not even then realize that their 
plant would be a complete ruin. But 
four hours after the end of the building 
had gone, the natural hydraulic hose of 
the diverted Shenango river had done 
its work. With a crash that sent terror 
into the hearts of the harassed thous- 
ands, housed and homeless, alike, the 
big building toppled into the river. So 
great was the force of the river that 
heavy linotypes, presses and other ma- 
chinery were found far down the river 
many days afterward. 

NEWSPAPERS SOON ISSUE 

The Herald loss was $30,000 without 
a cent of collectable insurance. The 
loss on the building, which was owned 
by John L. Morrison, of Washington, 




CHARLES KNAPP 



Page Twelve 



D. C, was about $10,000. But a 
true tritmte to the spirit which was born 
in Sharon after the rush of waters had 
subsided is the example set by that pa- 
per. With everything lost, it moved its 
headquarters to an out-of-town plant 
and missed but four days of publication 
and is running up to this time. 

The day before no papers had been 
published in Sharon. The plant of the 
Sharon Telegraph on Water street, in 
the very heart of the flood zone, was 
out of commission on Tuesday noon. 
Though this paper suffered no irrepar- 
able damage, it was unable to publish as 
was the Herald until Friday night. 
Then, through the courtesy of 0. J. 
Smith, owner of the Farrell Daily News. 
both papers managed to get out. 

It was a remarkable piece of news- 
paper work that the Herald and Tele- 
graph, composing and printing in the 
News office, Farrell, were able to sell 
extras on the streets of Sharon within 
three days after their plants had been 
put out of commission. The Herald had 
a complete extra, with pictures, on Shar- 
on 's streets Friday at midnight. The 
Telegraph followed with another com- 
plete extra Saturday morning. From 
then on, both papers rushed flood extras 
from their headquarters in Farrell until 
the Herald made arrangements to print 
its paper in the plant of the New Cas- 
tle News, and the Telegraph was able 
to get back into its old home. 

"V" BRIDGE FALLS 

Hardly had the Herald building 
fallen into the waters of the river than 
another crash farther up the Shenango 
again startled the people. This was the 
collapse of one wing of the "V" bridge, 
one of the most famous steel bridges in 
the country. 

The "V" bridge was a massive steel 
structure connecting Silver street on the 
east with Boyce street and Porter street 





LOOKING WEST ON STATE STREET FROM SHENANGO HOUSE 



on the west. On the east it has but the 
one entrance, dividing into a gigantic 
" V " and running to its two western ex 
tremities. It was built in 1905 at an 
approximate cost of $100,000 and was 
then considered one of the most re- 
markable structures of its kind. 

The rising waters buoyed the north- 
ern spur connecting with Boyce street 
sufficiently to allow the current to tear 
out the center pillar. This happened 
about 11 o'clock Wednesday night. 
With the center pier gone, the northern 
spur dropped into the current and was 
wrecked. ,.i*^9 

ASK TROOPS AND STATE AID 

On the same night conditions seemed 
so chaotic and accurate information was 
so nearly impossible to obtain that A. R. 
McGill, cashier of the First National 
Bank, after a conference with several 
of the leading citizens of Sharon, tele- 
graphed to Burgess Ralph Robinson, at- 
tending to his duties as an assemblyman 
in Harrisburg, asking for state troops 




THE HERALD RUINS 



— Photo by Harry Davis 



and state aid for relief to the amount 
of $100,000. There then appeared to 
be every indication of looting and possi- 
ble assaults and bloodshed. Mr. McGill 
and his advisors felt also that the troops 
were needed to protect the people from 
the danger of falling buildings. 

Mr. Robinson received the message 
from Sharon about midnight. He went 
at once to Gov. Tener's mansion and 
showed him the telegram. Gov. Tener 
immediately ordered Troop D, Pennsyl- 
vania State Constabulary, stationed at 
Butler, to go to Sharon. He also sug- 
gested that Burgess Robinson proceed 
to Sharon at once and said that if the 
burgess reported that there was need of 
state aid, money would be sent at once. 

"DAYTON FIRST," SAYS BURGESS 

Burgess Robinson's reply a few days 
later, "Dayton first; Sharon can take 
care of itself," will go down in history 
as one of the classic expressions of 
American spirit in the long list of 
national disasters. 

The state troops came overland from 
Mercer, a hard ride, and reached 
Sharon on Thursday morning. But in 
the meantime the Buhl Independent 
Rifles, under the command of Captain 
Thomas Price, had been doing guard 
duty. Their work was most effective 
and even after the arrival of the state 
troops they worked in such perfect con- 
junction with the constabulary that 
they received unstinted praise from 
Capt. J. D. Robinson, in command of 
the troopers. 

With the arrival of Capt. Robinson 
and his troopers, Sharon was put under 
martial law. But there was so little 
sign of looting that the troopers were 
recalled at the request of Sharon citi- 
zens on Saturday. 

Thursday the waters began to recede. 
By Friday evening the flood was over 
and Sharon had an opportunity to view 
the real havoc the flood had done and 
prepare for the greatest task in its his- 
tory, the restoration of the half ruined 
city. 



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Scene of Drowning and Boat Occupants 




POSTOFFICE. X SHOWS WHEBE MES. WILDING DEOWNED 



-Photo by Cubbison 



WATERS RECEDE FRIDAY 

Friday morning the waters had gone 
down. For the first time since Easter 
Sunday the sun came out bright and 
clear and shone over a scene of desola 
tion and destruction such as the oldest 
inhabitant of the city had never before 
witnessed. It seemed on that morning 
after the flood that the people of Shar- 
on, who had just come through so 
much, were facing the hardest task of 
all — the repairing and cleaning up ot 
their water-swept city. 

State street, the principal business 
street of the town, was a mass of debris. 
From the P. & L. E. tracks on the east 
to a point beyond the Erie tracks on the 
west, the street that had just been a 
river was piled high with litter. Fences 
and outhouses were jammed against 
the plate glass windows of what had 
been but a few days before some of the 
most prosperous appearing stores in the 
Shenango Valley. Every block had its 
quota of dead dogs, dead chickens and 
other after-wash of the flood. Curious, 
too, were the hundreds of dead fish, cast 




high and dry by the waters, which clut- 
tered the streets. Window after win- 
dow was broken. The street seemed 
beyond restoration — the street of a city 
that was. 




GEOEGE MANNING 



PAULINE EOSENBLUM 

State street, being the main business 
street, seemed at first glance the hard- 
est hit. But it did not suffer the actual 
damage that South and North Water 
street did. Neither of these thorough- 
fares are paved except for a distance 
of about two blocks on either side of 
State street. They are on the west side 
of the State street bridge at one of the 
lowest points in the city. Here, during 
those days of high water, there had been 
a depth of seven or eight feet and when 
the flood subsided it left behind it a 
scar that was not healed for months. 
The sidewalks were torn up, great flag 
stones thrown against the sides of 
buildings, and the water had gouged out 
the street in places to the extent of 
seven or eight feet. 

SCENES OF DAMAGE 

Possibly the worst damage was done 
in the vicinity of the Stewart Iron 



Works near the Valley Bridge. A lit- 
tle to the north of the bridge the She- 
nango river takes a sharp turn. When 
the rush of waters was at its height, the 
river leaped its bank abruptly at the 
turn and swept in one vast, rushing cur- 
rent on the unprotected residences 
around the Iron Works. There were 
about a dozen houses in this neighbor- 
hood which were torn from their foun- 
dations and carried down the river to 
be thrown against the banks where they 
stood out like stark derelicts when the 
waters had receded. Fortunately, 
everyone had been taken out of these 
dwellings before the waters reached 
their height. 

Next to this section of the city, the 
worst damaged residence portion was 
at the lower end of South Main street 
near Short street on the West Side. 
This, too, is a low section of the town 
and there are a number of substantial 
homes not far from the banks of the 
river. Hardly one of these houses es- 
caped. None of them was washed away 
— they were too well built — but all of 
them had water in their first floors for 




MES. A. M. EOSENBLUM 



Page Fourteen 



two or three feet, the foundations were 
damaged and much furniture ruined. 
Not far beyond is the Weller-Krouse 
cleaning works. This is a two story 
brick building. The rear of it was 
crumbled up and torn away like so 
much papier maehe, leaving a gaunt 
ruin. 

At the foot of South Water street the 
water had rushed along at a furious 
rate. The street for a distance of about 
100 feet — at the High School building 
— was washed out. It was feared for 
several days that this handsome brick 
school house — one of the best in the val- 
ley — had been so weakened that it 
would be unsafe. A careful examina- 
tion showed, however, that this was a 
needless fear. 

All through the old part of the town, 
known as the "Flats" the flood had 
painted its picture in colors of destruc- 
tion. The streets were eaten out in 
spots as though some mighty dredge 
had torn and bitten at them. Scarcely 




STATE STREET BRIDGE AT HIGH WATER 



braces broken and it seemed on the 
verge of collapse. It was several days 
after the flood before street cars and 
people were allowed to pass over the 
structure with any degree of safety. 

This, then, was the picture that pre- 
sented itself to the sturdy citizens of 
Sharon on Friday morning. But it did 
not dismay them. Men who in the days 
before had been fighting for their lives 




VINE STREET LOOKING NORTH FROM STATE STREET 



a house in the district but suffered from 
cruel blows of the rushing torrent. 
Foundations were weakened, porches 
and front steps were torn away and the 
household goods on the first floors were 
ruined. 

While State street gave the appear- 
ance of the greatest damage in the busi- 
ness section, it was in fact, no harder 
hit than were River, Penn avenue, Vine, 
Shenango and Chestnut streets. The 
business houses on these streets suffer- 
ed fully as much, but because they are 
side streets they did not show as seem- 
ingly great damage as did the more 
prosperous State street. 

STATE STREET BRIDGE TWISTED 

No one thing on State street stood 
out more clearly as a ruin of the flood 
wreck than did the twisted and torn 
State street bridge. This is the main 
thoroughfare from one side of the river 
to the other and though it did not go 
down, its railings were bent, its 



and those of their families in boats, on 
Friday put their shoulders to the Avheel 
of rehabilitation. The damage that 
morning was estimated at $1,500,000 to 
the United States Steel Corporation 
plants, the Sharon Steel Hoop Company 
and the National Malleable Castings 
Company; at $100,000 to the merchants 
of Sharon ; at $150,000 to residences; at 
$150,000 to streets and pavements de- 



stroyed, and at $500,000 to the rail- 
roads. These figures, however, proved 
later to be exaggerated. 

That did not, however, at the time 
minimize the task before the people of 
the city. Disease and pestilence threat- 
ened from the debris in the streets, and 
to prevent this was the first duty of the 
city authorities. And they went to the 
task immediately. Acting Burgess 
Nightwine, and Street Commissioner 
Harry Jenkins had a force of men out 
bright and early Friday morning. Any 
able bodied man could get a job in 
Sharon those days working for the city. 
The big force made rapid inroads on the 
mass of litter. The carcasses were 
hauled to the dumps, quicklime thrown 
over them, and thus they were destroy- 
ed. The other litter was burned on the 
outskirts of the city and the streets 
were then scraped. In a week, the only 
signs of the flood were those places 
where repairs were needed. 

Sharon had suffered. The flood was 
over. 

FARRELL MILLS SUFFER 

Sharon bore the brunt of the disaster. 
The town of Farrell, one of the most 
important steel towns in the country, 
lies down the Shenango about two miles 
from Sharon. It is here that the big 
plants of the United States Steel Cor- 
poration are located. The town is built 
on gentle slopes, its main business 
street, Broadway, being a good quarter 
of a mile from the river. But all of the 
mills are on the river's edge. They 
were flooded to such an extent that they 
were forced to shut down from Tues- 
day until the following Monday. 
Though some repairs were necessary 
the big Farrell plants suffered little. 




STATE STREET ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT 



-Photo by Heintz 



Page Fifteen 




East Side Relief Committee 

two furnaces the Fanny, owned by M. 
A. Hanna & Co., and the Alice, owned 
by Pickands, Mathers Co., were shut 
down for a week after the waters had 
flooded them. The residents of Middle- 
sex suffered practically no loss. 



HON. WILLIAM McINTYRE 

PEEDICAMENT OF WOMAN 

Wheatland, a village just beyond Far- 
rell, was damaged the worst of the 
places near Sharon. Here the people 
thought there was no danger and re- 
fused to leave their homes until the 
water had risen to such an extent that 
it was necessary for many of them to 
take to the boats. In Wheatland, Mrs. 
Jerry Hickey, believed to have been the 
largest woman in that section of Penn- 
sylvania, lay ill on the first floor of her 
home. She weighed 450 pounds and it 
was necessary to carry her to the second 
floor as the waters began to swirl about 
her bed. She suffered so from the shock 
that she died on April 5. 

The only other place in the vicinity 
of Sharon to suffer from the flood was 
the village of West Middlesex where the 



Pymatuning Dam Is the 
Future Preventative 

Sharon and the towns of the Shenan- 
go Valley, with the passing of the 
flood, looked about for a remedy. They 
had had brought home to them most 
graphically, in dollars and cents, in de- 
vastated property the fact that because 
destroying floods had never happened 
before was no indication that they could 
not happen. And they realized that 





ACTING BURGESS WILLIAM NIGHTWINE 



FLOYD K. SMITH 

that which had occurred once might oc- 
cur again. 

No amount of argument, no number 
of thousands of dollars spent in adver- 
tising could have brought into such 
prominence the remedy which already 
was under discussion as the Shenango 
Valley flood of 1913. Far-seeing busi- 
ness men of the towns of the valley, 
practical engineers and officials of the 
state had, long before, become con- 
vinced that just what did happen could 
happen. Their belief started the agita- 
tion for the Pymatuning dam and reser- 
voir; the flood made argument against 
that measure worse than useless. 

Pymatuning Swamp comprises 10,400 
acres at the headwaters of the Shenan- 
go river, its elevation being approxi- 








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HEEALD SQUARE AT HIGH WATER 



-Photo by Harry Davis 



Page Sixteen 



mately 1,000 feet above sea level. The 
greater portion of the swamp proper is 
covered with timber and brush, the low 
portion of the land immediately adjoin- 
ing, being chiefly devoted to pasturage, 
while that above the swamp level is cul- 
tivated. 

Before going into a discussion of the 
dam and the work it is expected to ac- 
complish it might be well to review the 
history of the movement from portions 
of an address made last year by Mr. 
Norman Powell, one of the engineers 
who investigated the Pymatuning 
swamp at the instance of the Beaver 
County Manufacturers Association, and 
who afterwards reported with his two 
associates in favor of a reservoir. Mr. 
Powell says in part: 

"The history of the movement dates 
to the session of the Legislature of 
Pennsylvania of 1907, when an act was 
passed authorizing an appropriation of 
$15,000 for the purpose of draining the 
Pymatuning Swamp, in connection with 
the improvement of certain highways 
through it, providing a like amount was 
contributed by the community benefited. 
The Legislature of 1909 amended the 
former legislation to exclude the por- 
tion to be raised by contribution and 
the measure was approved by the Gov- 
ernor in the sum of $10,000 which is 
still available. 

"It seems that the principle on which 
the scheme depends supports the con- 
tention that the water would be de- 
livered to the stream (The Shenango) 
more rapidly, causing higher floods and 
diminished storage efficiency. 

"Opposition to this measure sprang 
up as soon as it became law, and it be- 
came a subject of vigorous attack by 
the press of the valley. The final en- 
abling of the act being in the hands of 
the State "Water Supply Commission, 
this body was appealed to, to withhold 
its approval until adequate and detailed 
information could be supplied." 

Mr. Powell then tells of the action of 
the Beaver County Manufacturers' As- 




P. R. K. TRACKS SUBMERGED ON RAILROAD STREET 



sociation in selecting three engineers to 
review the swamp and make a report 
which was against the draining of the 
swamp and in favor of a dam and the 
establishment of a reservoir. He then 
continues : 

"The information in the interim. be- 
tween the closing of the Legislature of 
1909 and the convening of that of 1911 
resulted after a further hearing early 
in 1911 in the "Water Supply Commis- 
sion withholding its approval of the 
plans of the State Highway Depart- 
ment. 

"The immense value of the proposed 
reservoir was early recognized by the 
Water Supply Commission and the sug- 
gestion that an effort be put forth to 
secure an appropriation for a complete 
hydraulic survey of the swamp area to 
establish the feasibility of such a pro- 
ject met with a hearty reception. 

"After much effort, collectively and 
individually, legislation was secured 
authorizing the expenditure of $15,000 
for the purpose, Governor Tener ap- 
proving the measure in the sum of 
$10,000." 

What the "Water Supply Commission 




HIGH WATER MARK NEAR CENTRAL SCHOOL 



claims the dam would accomplish is best 
illustrated by the following excerpt 
from its report of April 11, 1913, just 
after the flood: 

"The Commission has determined 
that Pymatuning Reservoir with all 
gates and valves closed would have com- 
pletely absorbed the flood of March 
26th by retaining the entire discharge 
of the Shenango river at Turnersville 
from midnight of March 24th, to mid- 
night of March 28th, a total of ninety- 
six hours. The reservoir would have been 
at elevation 1006 on December 1st, 1912, 
and would have absorbed the flood of 
January 11th, 1913, and would have 
been full on February 1st, 1913. The 
total rise in the reservoir for the ninety- 
six hours above mentioned, would have 
been 1 foot ten and three-quarters 
inches. This would have reduced the 
flood height at Sharon 3.74 feet at the 
First National Bank Building, and 
would have lowered the water at the 
State Street bridge 4.1 feet. At New 
Castle, due to back water at bridges, the 
flood height would have been reduced 
five feet, and at Beaver Falls there 
would have been a reduction of about 
seven per cent, in discharge. 

"As the dam is ten feet higher than 
the spill way, proper regulating devices 
installed thereon will permit the surface 
of the reservoir to be raised two or 
three feet above its normal height when 
just going over the spill way, so that 
in a ease of emergency like that just 
passed, the extra water can be retained 
nor would this in any way endanger the 
integrity of the dam." 

The following taken from the last re- 
port of the Commission before this his- 
tory was prepared (May 1, 1913) gives 
a rather complete idea of the Pymatun- 
ing dam and reservoir project : 

EXISTING CONDITIONS. 

1. The present flow of the Shenango 
and Beaver rivers at numerous points, 
particularly Sharpsville, Sharon, Far- 
rell, and New Castle, is insufficient to 



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West Side Relief Workers 




CLARENCE SNYDER 

adequately supply the needs of these 
communities and their growth has been, 
and will continue to be, seriously ham- 
pered unless a sufficient water supply is 
made available. The minimum stream 
flow at Sharon and New Castle is ap- 
proximately 20 and 25 cubic feet per 
second, respectively, while the total de- 
mand of all the communities and works 
using the stream is approximately 356 
cubic feet per second. 

2. Damage by floods at several points 
along the river has been serious, nota- 
bly at Sharon and New Castle, while 
agricultural lowlands along the entire 
stream, as well as railroads, highways 
and bridges, have been injured or de- 
stroyed. 

3. The sanitary condition of the 
channel, where the river passes through 
the larger communities is deplorable, 
due to the inability of the stream at low 
water to properly carry off and dilute 
the sewage, manufacturing refuse, gar- 
bage and other waste deposited therein. 

4. The Shenango river is little used 
for water power development. In its 
original condition, before its shores 
were traversed by railroads, and its 





REV. GEORGE D. BROOKS 

low water flow depleted, it was a good 
stream for such purposes, but at present 
it is of small value. On the lower Beaver 
river the fall has been utilized by water 
power plants which have depreciated 
in value, condition and output, owing 
to the low flow in the summer. 

5. The temperature of the water 
during dry periods, owing to industrial 
use, become so high as to reduce its ef- 
ficiency for cooling purposes, for which 
the stream is now largely utilized, re- 
sulting in a decreased flow due to aug- 
mented evaporation. 

RESULTS OBTAINABLE. 

1. Investigation determined that a 
portion of Pymatuning Swamp and ad- 
jacent area can be converted into a stor- 
age reservoir by constructing an earth- 
en dam, having an average height of 27 
feet, across the valley of the Shenango 
river near Turnersville, approximately 
three miles north of the Crawford-Mer- 
cer county line, and that other portions 
of the swamp may be advantageously 
drained. 

2. Such dam, with an approximate 
length of 2910 feet, could be provided 





HON. W. S. PALMER 

with a concrete spillway founded on 
rock, having its crest at elevation 1008 
feet above sea level, the top of the dam 
being 10 feet higher. It would over- 
flow, at spillway level, 24.7 square 
miles, or 15,800 acres, and impound 
8,182,000,000 cubic feet, or 61,204,000,- 
000 gallons. 

3. By drawing this reservoir down 
4.3 feet in the average year, and 9 feet 
in the dryest year, which would have 
occurred once in the past 35 years, the 
low water flow of the Shenango river at 
Sharon, can be so increased that its 
minimum discharge will be 450 cubic 
feet per second, or 290,700,000 gallons 
per day, while under present conditions 
the extreme minimum flow is 20 second 
feet, or 12,900,000 gallons. This in- 
creased low water flow would be ample 
to supply the present demands of the 
users of the Shenango and Beaver riv- 
ers, and would provide for future 
growth. 

4. The proposed reservoir would 
eliminate any considerable contribution 
to floods from the 150 square miles of 
territory tributary above the dam, 
which constitutes one-quarter of the 




REV. E. S. OWENS 



COL. J. M. EVANS, DECEASED 



WILL T. BAINES 



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area above Sharon and 18.7 per cent of 
the area at New Castle. 

5. The proposed reservoir would im- 
prove the sanitary and aesthetic condi- 
tion of the Shenango and Beaver rivers, 
and of the Pymatuning Swamp. 

6. It would add approximately 2,000 
primary horsepower to the existing 
water power development on the Beaver 
river between Beaver Palls and the 
mouth, where the stream is partially 
utilized, but which, because of the low 
summer flow is now of little value in 
such periods, and it would improve the 
few small water powers on the Shenan- 
go river in operation above that point. 

7. A regulated flow of 450 second feet 
would confine the temperature of the 
river water to small variations instead 
of permitting of a rise in temperature 
to 140 degrees P. (which it has been 
frequently known to reach), and would 
eliminate the large evaporation losses 
now occurring from the overheated 
stream. 




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trial development would be increased, 
and also that the communities in the vi- 
cinity of the reservoir would be bene- 
fitted through improved highways, the 
creation of an attractive lake, water 
transportation, and better sanitary con- 
ditions. 

As the demand for water increases 
with population and industry, and as 




STATE AND EAILEOAD STEEETS, SHOWING OVEEHEAD TROLLEY TO FEED 

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8. ■ The amount of cultivated land re- 
quired for the proposed reservoir is 
2,413 acres, of which 448 acres is re- 
claimed swamp used for onion culture. 
There remains at. the upper end of the 
reservoir, and above the proposed water 
surface, 1,482 acres of swamp land eas- 
ily reclaimable for similar cultivation 
and of equally suitable character and 
accessibility. The farm land which 
would surround the reservoir should be 
increased in productivity by reason of 
the rise in the ground water level. 

9. The cost of the entire project, in- 
cluding the acquisition and preparation 
of the reservoir area, and buildings 
thereon, relocation of roads, bridges and 
railroads, and construction of dam and 
regulating appliances, is estimated at 
approximately $1,600,000. 

10. The Commission is of the opinion 
that the construction of this dam and 
reservoir would cause a benefit along 
the Shenango and Beaver valleys, more 
than commensurate with the anticipated 
cost of the project, and that the indus- 



the stream flow, due to natural causes, 
continues to reach lower proportions, the 
necessity for the regulation of the flow 
of streams by artificial means increases. 
In the Shenango Valley, the status of 
industrial development is such that 
without largely augmented water sup- 
ply, further increase in population and 
industry must be slow, and in the near 
future must cease. The State has 
wisely aided in the solution of this 



problem by providing the funds for a 
careful investigation of the feasibility 
of constructing the Pymatuning reser- 
voir, and as a result of this study, the 
Commission is assured of the desirabil- 
ity of its construction, and the feasibil- 
ity thereof, the resulting benefits ac- 
cruing to the State at large, as well as 
to the various communities along the 
stream. 

CLASSIFICATION AND VALUE OF 

""""■"LAND IN FLOODED AREA. 

It is estimated that the reservoir, at 
spillway level, will inundate 24.7 square 
miles, or 15,808 acres, but in determin- 
ing its cost it has been assumed that 
additional land above that level should 
be acquired to provide for the raising 
of the level by floods, and that the en- 
tire area below elevation 1010 should be 
purchased. Furthermore, it would not 
seem necessary that the taking line 
should follow all the irregularities of 
the shore line. At the upper end of the 
swamp, south of Linesville and north of 
Hartstown, the proposed water level 
crosses the dense swamp and, owing to 
the backwater effect in this area, it is 
proposed to acquire flowage rights, up 
to elevation 1012. Enclosed within the 
reservoir there will be several islands, 
cut off from shore communication, 
which, also, would be purchased. Thus 
the total area required for reservoir 
purposes amounts to 18,600 acres, di- 
vided as follows : 

Land required in fee, 85.8 per cent, 
or 17,378 acres. 

Land released for flowage rights, 14.2 
per cent, or 1,222 acres. 

Total, 18,600 acres. 



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Of the 17,378 acres necessary to pur- 
chase, 51.7 per cent., or 8,993 acres, is 
swamp or partially overflowed land, 
the greater portion of which is inaccessi- 
ble, except when the surface is frozen, 
and even then is attended with difficul- 
ty and often danger. The cultivated 
lands and onion fields comprise 13.9 per 
cent., or 2,413 acres, the balance of 
5,972 acres, or 24.4 per cent., include 
wood, pasture and meadow lands. The 
swamp and dry lands may be further 
subdivided as follows : 

Swamp and overflowed lands: Acres 

Covered with woods and timber 7,541 

Covered with brush and burned timber — 872 

Open -... 580 



Dry lands: 

Cultivated 

Onion fields 
Woodland 



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There are 115 buildings in and bor- 
dering on the proposed reservoir that 
would be affected, sub-divided as fol- 
lows: 53 houses, 56 barns and six mis- 
cellaneous structures. It would not be 
necessary to destroy or acquire all of 
the buildings affected, 22 houses and 21 
barns could be moved to higher ground 
on the same properties without depriv- 
ing the owners of their homes. In gen- 
eral, the project does not involve the 
taking of the better portions of farms, 
although at the lower end of the reser- 
voir it would be necessary to take en- 
tire farms situated in the flats border- 
ing on the river. 

A fair conception of the agricultural 
lands in this vicinity may be obtained 



from the 39th Report of the Secretary 
of Internal Affairs of Pennsylvania, for 
1911, in which it is stated that of the 
total area of Crawford county, 87% 
per cent, is devoted to farming, sub- 
divided as follows: 

Value 

Total farm acreage 580,411 $13,690,673 

Buildings 9,820,167 

Total number of farms 7,115 

Total $23,510,860 

Improved acreage -375,945 acres 

56.7 per cent, of entire county 
Woodland acreage ._ — „115,546 acres 

17.4 per cent, of entire county 
Unimproved acreage _ 88,920 acres 

13.4 per cent, of entire county 

Total _ 580,411 acres 

87.5 per cent, of entire county 

The average Crawford county farm 
contains about 81.6 acres, of which 52.8 
acres, or 64.7 per cent., are improved or 
under cultivation; the mean value, per 
acre, of the entire farms being $23.60, or 
$40.50 per acre, including buildings. 

Whether a storage reservoir is sani- 
tary and attractive, or unhealthy and 
unattractive, is mainly a question of ex- 
penditure and supervision and it is be- 
lieved that the aesthetic and sanitary 
conditions resulting from this natural 
overflow are inferior to those which 
would follow the construction of the 
contemplated reservoir. 

It is proposed and included in the es- 
timate, to clear the swamp area of all 
trees and brush and to grub the shore 
line and pull the stumps for some dis- 
tance below the normal water surface. 
Experience has shown that under these 
conditions, the wave action soon estab- 
lishes a beach, equivalent to that of any 
natural pond. The rise and fall of the 
Pyinatuning Reservoir will be no great- 



er than Conneaut Lake, or Lake Chau- 
tauqua, both of which have beautiful 
shore lines. 

GENERAL INFORMATION CONCERNING THE 
PROPOSED DAM AND RESERVOIR. 

Description. Amounts. 

Elevation of top of dam above sea level 1019 feet 

Elevation of flow line above sea level 1008 feet 

Elevation of water surface at maximum 

draft 999 feet 

Maximum height of dam as per preliminary 

design 46 feet 

Average height of dam as per preliminary 

design _ 27 feet 

Maximum depth of water at dam 36 feet 

Length of earthen dam on crest 2910 feet 



Length of concrete spillway 250 feet 

Area of reservoir at flow line 24.7 sq. miles 

Approximate length of full reservoir 16 miles 

Average width of full reservoir 1.54 miles 

Maximum width of full reservoir 2.56 miles 

Length of shore line at elevation 1008 50 miles 

Area of swamp and overflowed land re- 
quired - 8,943 acres 

Area of dry and tillable land required 8,435 acres 

Number of houses submerged or affected 53 

Number of barns submerged or affected - 56 

Improved and relocated highways 11 miles 

Track elevation, E. & P. Railroad 1.70 miles 

Total capacity of reservoir at 1008 flow line 

8,182,300 cu. ft., or 61,204,000,000 gal. 

Maximum storage required to maintain 450 

sec. ft. flow at Sharon 

5,060,000,000 cu. ft., or 37,848,800,000 gal. 

Estimated cost per million cubic feet reser- 
voir capacity _ $ 191.00 

Estimated cost per million gallons reservoir 

capacity $25,60 

Estimated cost per million cubic feet utilized 

storage _ $309.00 

Estimated cost per million gallons utilized 

storage - $41.40 



BABY? NO. SPLASH! 

A rescuing party in the South Ward 
was taking people from a house when 
one of the men was handed a bundle. 
He carried it, as a man will, with the 
utmost care and fear. Just to see what 
the baby looked like, he pulled aside a 
well wrapped shawl and found — a dog. 
Splash ! 




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USE ELECTRICITY FOR 
LIGHT AND POWER 

ELECTRIC LIGHT is economical, clean, safe, healthful and 
convenient in the place of business as well as in the home. 
When once installed it affords the use of so many little labor 
saving devices at practically no expense. Old houses can 
be wired with little trouble and expense by our wiring de- 
partment. 

ELECTRIC POWER when purchased from us will save con- 
siderable over the cost of producing power from your own 
power plant. Our power plant operates continuously at the 
highest efficiency on account of operating on such a mam- 
moth scale. We specialize on economic power manufactur- 
ing. Isn't it much simpler to maintain one pair of little 
wires from our service entering your factory than to maintain 
a small and necessarily inefficient power plant of your own? 
Many industries are buying our power because we have 
demonstrated that we can save them money. We can do 
the same for you. 

OUR LIGHT AND POWER RATES are lower than those 
quoted in other communities. 

SHENANGO VALLEY ELECTRIC LIGHT 

COMPANY 

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Fortitude 

Place not thy heart at haz- 
ard on one die. 
Life has great hopes and 

in them lie 
The courage to renew, when 

ruins about us fall 
Foundations deeper, wider, 

and a loftier wall. 
What though the things we 

builded be all swept away, 
Tis better thus than at a 

later day. 
For life is ours still, and 

mind and hand 
Obedient to the will that 

can command. 

—A. H. McQuilkin 



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AND YOU CAN | 

HELP 







Relief Committees 

Do Good Work 

in Flood 

"Dayton first; Sharon can take care 
of itself. What belongs to its rich is al- 
so that of its poor. Dayton needs suc- 
cor more than our city and Sharon ap- 
peals that the generous public will send 
aid where it is most needed." 

This was the message of Friday that 
Burgess Ralph L. Robinson sent to the 
outside world, though he was then gaz- 
ing on what at that moment seemed to 
be a ruined city. It was a clarion note 
of self-reliance in the midst of disaster 
that will live. It was the beginning of 
the relief work which ended in raising 
a total of several thousand dollars. 

While the waters continued to rise, 



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thoughtful citizens realizing the need 
for succor to those in distress had map- 
ped out a plan for relief work. Prior 
to this Adjutant Runcie of the Salva- 
tion Army announced his willingness 
to care for those driven from their 
homes, but the Salvation Army building 
was, itself, soon under water and was 
useless as a relief station. 

On the West side of town a relief or- 
ganization was perfected with Rev. G. 
D. Brooks of the First Baptist church 
as chairman; Clarence E. Snyder as 
treasurer, and Will T. Baines, business 
manager of the Sharon Telegraph, as 
secretary. Others on the committee 
were W. W. Moore, merchant; Col. J. 
M. Evans (now dead) ; Hon. W. S. Pal- 
mer, and Adjutant Runcie. Headquar- 
ters were established in the Armstrong 




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Grocery Co. building and the relief sta- 
tions were at the First Baptist church, 
Sacred Heart school, and the Lafayette 
school. An emergency hospital was 
fitted up in the office building of the S. 
Perkins estate. 



capacity of secretary and treasurer. 
They were ably assisted by the ladies 
of the Buhl Independent Rifles, women 
of the United Presbyterian church and 
many others. Relief stations were es- 
tablished in the Knights of Columbus 




HOUSES TILTED IN HEAR OF PORTER STREET 



On the East Side, Hon. William Mc- 
Intyre, president of the Sharon Board 
of Trade, and Floyd K. Smith, a manu- 
facturer, were in charge of the work, 
assisted by Acting Burgess Nightwine. 
Mr. Mclntyre was chairman of the com- 
mittee which Mr. Smith served in the 



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rooms, the United Presbyterian church, 
the Shenango and Rankin hotels, the 
Buhl Club and the armory of the Buhl 
Independent Rifles. 

The members of the Board of Trade 
personally furnished the funds for im- 
mediate supplies. After the need of re- 

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bite the tongue. 

No odor — cannot become strong. 

Cannot get a bitter taste. 

Sifts the smoke through small 
holes. 

Cannot, clog under any conditions. 

Saliva can't get into bowl of pipe. 

Burns all the tobacco. 

F.H. Alderman &Co. 

STATE ST., SHARON, PA. 



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ARCHITECTURE 

Clepper says: "The fact that I 
execute Architectural Commis- 
sions for the best and largest 
builders in this vicinity, my splen- 
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good nature is always contagious 
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lief had passed it was learned, though 
never made public, that the members 
individually had pledged themselves for 
$2,000 and stood ready to furnish any 
further sum that was needed. 

On the West Side, the raising of a re- 



sister borough of Sharon, a total of 
$454.35. This fund in Farrell was start- 
ed at the instance of 0. J. Smith, pro- 
prietor of the Farrell Daily News. His 
suggestion was enthusiastically received 
among his fellow townsmen and relief 



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lief fund was fostered through the Shar- 
on Telegraph, after liberal cash dona- 
tions had been given to the relief com- 
mittee. The sum of $294.73 was raised. 
It was in relief work that Farrell 
came to the front and furnished the 
largest and only outside donation to her 



money poured into the News office. It 
was immediately turned over to the re- 
lief committee in Sharon. 

The Armstrong Grocery Co. turned 
over quantities of edibles to the "West 
Side committee representing a value of 
about $700. When a bill was requested, 



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Josephine 



is the name of this new pattern to which we would call your 
attention at this time. We have put in this pattern complete 
in all its various articles. The cut does not do justice to the 
beauty of the design. It makes a pattern of utility and pres- 
tige for the bride's silver. A complete chest of all ordinary 
articles, in dozens and single pieces, at two hundred dollars. 

WENTZ THE JEWELER 

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"W. B. Marshall, secretary of the com- 
pany, demanded 1 cent and gave a re- 
ceipt in full. The coin he will preserve 
as a souvenir. 



sistance. Agent H. W. Cole received a 
telegram from C. F. Daly, of New York, 
vice president of the traffic department, 
notifying him that the road stood ready 




TWISTED BAILING ON STATE STREET BRIDGE 



The Lake Shore railroad, in addition 
to being the first company to get a train 
into Sharon, was also the first and only 
transportation company offering as- 



to transport all relief supplies free 

when consigned to the relief committee. 

With state health officials in Sharon 

at the time and sounding a warning to 



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Dry Goods 

Millinery 

Cloaks 

Suits 

Rugs and 

Wall Paper 

Mail and telephone orders 
given same careful and 
prompt attention as ac- 
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store. 



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discontinue the use of all city and well 
water for drinking purposes, John C. 
Herrmann, owner of a good natural 
spring, gratuitously distributed thous- 
ands of gallons of water among the resi- 
dents. 



Heroes Are Many 

Days of dark disaster make heroes. 
Men who in quieter times have no 
knowledge of the latent courage in them 
rise to sublime heights of bravery and 



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There were in addition to these more 
public moves to assist the suffering, 
numerous other private and unheralded 
incidents of relief work. These, like 
the unknown heroes of the flood, re- 
ceived their reward in the blessings of 
the many they aided. 



self sacrifice when they see others in 
danger. The flood in the Shenango 
Valley was no exception. Were it pos- 
sible to give here the name of every 
person who wrote for himself in those 
three days a name in the book of brav- 
ery, the publishers of this history would 






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gladly do it. But that is an impossible 
task. For five weeks newspaper men 
of Sharon and Farrell have been search- 
ing for incidents of the flood that noth- 
ing might be lacking in making this a 
complete work. They have gathered 
many, but there are without doubt 



No one person stood alone as the lead- 
ing figure in the rescue work. There 
was not a man nor woman who fought 
with the rushing torrent to bring food 
to the destitute or to save life who did 
not do everything that their opportuni- 
ties permitted. 




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many, many more which escaped them. 
So we wish to take this opportunity to 
pay tribute to the unknown heroes of 
the Shenango Valley flood and to assure 
our readers that no one has been omit- 
ted, the story of whose good work could 
be obtained. 



Edward (Ted) Buckley, son of Mr. 
and Mrs. Patrick Buckley of Grant 
street, was one of the first men to an- 
swer the call for volunteers to take food 
to the marooned people on the "West 
side and to get the hundreds in danger 
from their homes. After 32 hours with- 



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Dress goods and trimmings. 

The largest bedding department 
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Corsets specially fitted — special 
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Millinery — ready to wear gar- 
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out sleep, during which time he was 
continually either wading, swimming or 
working a boat, Buckley collapsed and 
was unconscious for seven hours. He 
was raving when he came to and it took 
several men to keep him quiet. It was 



deserves full credit for his share of the 
rescue work, was rowing through the 
swiftly flowing street rivers, taking 
people from houses. Many times he 
carried women through the current to- 
safety. It was Buckley and Patton, 




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many days before Buckley recovered 
his normal health. 

Prom early "Wednesday morning un- 
til he collapsed, Buckley carried coffee 
and water to the people who had had 
no food nor fit drinking water for two 
days, or else, with Clarence Patton, who 



who for all of one day, Wednesday, and 
part of another, had the only boat on 
the West Side. Altogether they res- 
cued over 400 men, women and chil- 
dren. Money Avas showered on them, 
but not a cent would either of the men 
take. They saw their duty and did it. 



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JOHN FORKER, Vice President 

W. L W00DW0RTH, Ass't Sec'y and Treas. 



Sharon Savings & Trust Co. 

Sharon, Penn'a 




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C. Q. CARVER 
JOHN FORKER 
W. G. KRANZ 



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S. C. KOONCE 
I. C. MOORE 
CHAS. F. PHILLIPS 
W. A. ROBERTS 



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CANDLES? GO TO BED 

A party of boatmen were making 
their way along a dark street, Thurs- 
day night, when they were hailed. They 
rowed toward the voice and found a 
man. The following conversation en- 
sued: 



Was some one saying: "Candles? Go 
to bed!" 

Though fear, bravery and sadness all 
played their parts in the great flood 
days, humor crept in here and there. 
Possibly the most humorous incident 
occurred when one boat crew lassoed 




VIEW ON EIVEE STREET 



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"No!" 

' ' Got something to eat in the house ? ' ' 
"Yes, got lots to eat and drink, but 
say, get me some candles, will you?" 
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Some one cried out "Threw it in and 
pull it out again and get another egg." 

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the best candies, soda water and 
ice cream possible to make. 

Fancy Sherbets, Ices and lee 
Creams of all kinds and forms de- 
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Page Thirty 



Acting Chief of Police Samuei Lands- 
downe was in the Shenango House, hav- 
ing just received word of the death of 
his father. Without a moment's hesi- 
tation he elbowed his way through the 
crowds and pluged into the water. Wad- 



Denny Was carried unconscious into the 
Knights of Columbus rooms where he 
was revived with difficulty. Later in 
the day he was removed to his home. 

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ing and swimming he managed to reach 
Denny's side. The current was too 
swift and he was unable to get back. 

A call for assistance brought Charles 
Knapp and Samuel Matthews, colored. 
The trio were able to reach safety. 



town, near Budd avenue and the Atlan- 
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work was done by four foreigners. 

On "Wednesday morning cries of dis- 
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of town, where the torrent was swiftest. 



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Cor. State and Chestnut Streets 
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To attract attention revolvers were fired 
by the inmates until the shots were all 
used. It seemed inevitable that every 
inmate of the houses would be drowned. 
Several attempts were made by the 
rescue parties to reach the houses, but 
the current was so swift that they were 
unable to handle the boats. 




HOUSE NEAE STEWART IRON COMPANY FROM 
WHICH MAN WAS RESCUED 

— Photo by Heintz 



Finally Prank Hemburger, Nick 
Uglick, John Peger and John Pegyer 
built a boat such as is used in their own 
country, Vukovar, Slavonia, where 
floods occur frequently and do not 
alarm the people. 

By working as they never worked 
before, the men had the boat done 



early in the afternoon, launching it 
from the yards of the C. C. Baker com- 
pany. The manner in which each wave 
was studied and the current breasted 
was little short of miraculous and each 
stroke of the oars counted. 

The crowd on the banks shuddered 
and expected every minute to see the 



boat capsize, but the consumate skill 
with which it was handled saved the 
day. 

Taking a diagonal course across the 
swiftest part of the stream they turned 
the craft into the quieter waters along 
one of the side streets with apparent 
ease and set about the work of rescue. 



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Capital $175,000.00 

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OJrFICERS AND DIRECTORS 

JOHN CARLEY, President WILLIAM McINTYRE, Vice President 

C. H. PEARSON, Cashier 

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Scores of houses were visited and in- 
mates, who had been housed up for two 
days, in many cases without food or 
heat, were removed to the warm homes 
out of the flood zone. 

The work of these four men, who for 
hours without money and without price, 
undoubtedly saved many lives, as some 
of the persons who had been marooned 
were exhausted from the lack of food, 
fire and drinking water. 



34 "Willow street. They saved many 
women and children. 

STANDS ON CHAIR 

When the water rose two feet in the 
home of George Hummell on Hickory 
street, "Wednesday night, Mr. and Mrs. 
Hummell were compelled to seek safety 
elsewhere. Being too far removed from 
rescuers, the husband decided to raise 
his wife to the roof and then join her. 







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Two other foreigners, who come from 
the same district in Slavonia, also did 
excellent work in smaller boats and 
saved many. They are Illia Viavich of 
36 "Willow street and Steve Boltos of 



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roof. He stood throughout the night 
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W. STATE ST. 



SHARON, PA 



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meant death for he would have fallen 
from his uncomfortable perch. Hus- 
band and wife were rescued on Thurs- 
day morning. 

HAS NARROW ESCAPE 

John Provoitiz of No. 8 Stewart av- 
enue, had a miraculous escape from a 
watery grave, when his home washed 
away by the swirling waters and 
crashed to pieces against another wash- 
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Every one had escaped from the 
Provoitz building in boats but Provoitz, 
who, fearing that the building would 
collapse or wash away, climbed to the 
roof. The building next to his place 
was carried nearly twenty feet off its 
foundations by the rising water, and his 



building began to move. Clinging to the 
roof he awaited his fate. It was but a 
few minutes, when the building, which 
was a two-story, double house, was car- 
ried away. It struck against a tree in 
the front yard and was hurled against 
another washed out building several 
yards away. Here it was smashed into 
pieces and Provoitz was hurled several 
feet away and into the waters. There 
was no help near. Grabbing a railroad 
tie that went floating by and clinging 
to it he was carried across Budd avenue, 
where the tie crashed through the door 
of a house. Here Provoitz who was 
nearly insensible and nearly dead from 
exposure, was picked up by foreigners 
who were in the house, and carried up 
stairs. 

BRAVES WATER FOR RELATIVES 

J. Randall of Ormond avenue made 
a thrilling and hazardous trip across 
the swirling waters of the Shenango 
river, and into the flooded districts of 
the south ward, and rescued his broth- 
er's family in a row boat which he made 
himself on Wednesday afternoon. 

Mr. Randall, hearing of his brother's 
plight, and not seeing any other means 
of rescuing them, went to the Baker 
lumber yard and constructed a boat. 
Starting from a point near the Penn- 
sylvania depot he paddled the boat di- 
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If you are familiar with our store you then already know better than 
w.e can tell you how well we have maintained our position. Our stocks of 
Furniture, Carpet, Stoves, Dishes and Wall Papers are so comprehensive 
and our attitude towards our customers so generous and so fair that deal- 
ing here is a positive pleasure. We know that there are many homes in 
Sharon that suffered considerable loss of household effects, and we are in 
excellent position to take care of the most extraordinary demands. If you 
need new Wall Papers, we offer you a most excellent assortment of designs 
and qualities. Or, if you need a new range or linoleum or new rugs or car- 
pets or curtains or furniture, we want you to let us show you how we can 
assist you. 

If you were one of the many who, among other things, lost their 
kitchen cabinets, then you can take advantage of our present sale of the 
famous McDougall Kitchen Cabinets — the finest cabinet on the market. 



$650.00 FOR S25.00 

Wo offer to place the limited number of 25 Cabinets into 
25 homes on the initial payment of $1.00 down. This is the 
only article in our entire stock that we sell upon such liberal 
terms. $1.00 down puts it in your home and you have a total 
of six months in which to pay the balance. 



Quick Action is Necessary 

We have just received a shipment of 25 Cabinets and 
from present indications our Club will soon be filled. During 
the sale we offer our $27.00 Cabinets at the cash price of 
$25.00 and yet give you a long time in which to pay for it. 
That 's why these sales are so popular. So join now if you 
want to be one of the fortunate 25. 



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landed on the other side and paddled 
his way through the flooded district 
to his brother's home where his brother 
and family were taken in. The return 
trip was safely made. Mr. Randall made 
several trips and helped rescue a num- 
ber of other families, and showed him- 
self to be a fine boatman. 

OFFICER MILLER A HERO 

Acting Roundsman Frank Miller was 
one of the many who did heroic work 



a raging current that flowed six feet 
deep, the fearless officer attached a rope 
to his waist and swam across the inter- 
vening space to reach the store. Sever- 
al times it looked as though he would 
be carried away by the current, but he 
was finally able to navigate the dis- 
tance and render succor to the unfor- 
tunate. The rope was tied around both 
men and they were pulled ashore amid 
the applause of hundreds who watched 
the brave act. Officer Miller was almost 




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when the flood was at its height and 
when it was dangerous for anyone to 
attempt to cross the downtown district. 
A man was marooned in the Condo 
store on Water street and was unable 
to reach the upstairs. His cries for as- 
sistance were heard by many people and 
Officer Miller was appealed to. Braving 



exhausted with his endeavor, but after 
a few moment's rest he was back on 
duty and aiding in the rescue work. 
HELLO GIRLS SHOW BRAVERY 
Numbered among the few women 
heroines of the flood of March are 
Misses Laura Dunham and Mary Lo- 
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Telephone Company at Sharon. These 
two girls will always be held in the 
highest regard by the hundreds of us- 
ers of the system who were able to com- 
municate with missing loved ones 
through the bravery of the operators. 



ceaselessly day and night until Thurs- 
day before relief operators could be 
placed on duty. 

During Tuesday and Wednesday 
nights the girls remained on duty while 
the swirling waters outside pounded 




PENNSY STATION AND STALLED TEAINS IN WATEE 



The girls went to work on Tuesday 
morning while the waters were on the 
rise. Realizing the necessity of keeping 
the lines in operation and knowing that 
relief workers could not enter the in- 
undated district the brave girls remain- 
ed at their switchboards. They worked 



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driftwood knocked against the build- 
ing. 

On Wednesday food was supplied to 
the girls by means of an overhead cable 
system that ran between the Thomas 
music store and the top of the building 



at the Southwest corner of State and 
Railroad streets. 

Another set of heroes were the "hello 
girls" at the Bell telephone office. Fif- 
teen girls remained on duty during the 
worst hours of the flood and assisted 
residents to get into communication 
with their loved ones, who were either 
in the inundated district or aiding in 
the work of rescue. 

UNKNOWN MAN DROWNED? 

An unknown man was seen coming 
down the river in a rowboat Thursday 
afternoon about 3 o'clock. Word was 
sent along Irvine avenue and many peo- 
ple gathered near Davis street to watch 
the man go past the Erie tracks at the 
dump. 

The man had no oars and he was 
kneeling in the boat and clinging to the 
sides. When he went over the dam 
formed by the Erie tracks at the valley, 
the boat leaped out of the water but it 
landed right side up. 

The boat was going at a terrific 
speed when it struck a tree in the dump 
and the boat was smashed to splinters 
and the man never appeared above the 
surface of the water. 

Many reports were scattered that 
the man was Finnerty of Sharon, but 
these reports were wrong. Finnerty 
started down Main street in a boat, but 
landed safely at Ohio street. 

The first boat to be pressed into ser- 



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vice was one secured by Assistant Fire 
Chief Tom Davis. It was used in getting 
out residents along the lower part of 
River street. Farther up the street 
where the residents were seemingly in 
the most danger the boats were unable 



The first couple removed after nightfall 
was Mr. and Mrs. Luke Higgins. Then 
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Ashton and daugh- 
ter were taken to a place of safety. Fol- 
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to navigate. It was after dusk that 
Hugh O'Neill and another rescuer ven- 
tured to rescue a number of those im- 
prisoned. The frail craft was buffeted 
to and fro as it wended its way through 
yards in the rear of Penn avenue to 
reach the rear of the River street homes. 



Both had been ill. The boat was making 
a fourth trip when it was caught in the 
swirl near the Elks Club and the oc- 
cupants were thrown into the water. 
They experienced great difficulty in sav- 
ing themselves from being drawn into 
the raging torrent a few feet away. 






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HOW MRS. WILDING DROWNED 

Dusk had started to gather over the 
river streets of the town on "Wednesday 
evening when death claimed its first and 
only tribute from the city, Mrs. Logan 
P. Wilding, of 34 Vine street, a bride 



had begged to be taken off, but almost 
across the street an old lady, bedrid- 
den, was in graver danger than were 
the members of the Rosenblum party. 
So no attempt -was made on that day 
to rescue the Rosenblums and Mrs. 




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of but a few months. Mrs. Wilding 
was living with Mrs. A. M. Rosenblum. 
Like hundreds of others they were 
marooned in the second story of their 
house. The day before a boat had pass- 
ed them, heavily loaded. The women 



Wilding. The party did not appear to 
be in any immediate danger, as the 
second floor of their home was above 
the crest of the flood. 

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With continued agitation against private water plants we take 
pleasure in presenting a portion of the official report of Mr. Philip 
Burgess, of the firm of Burgess & Long of Columbus, Ohio, an expert 
water chemist who was employed by the State of Ohio to examine 
every water plant in the state. Mr. Burgess conducted his tests from 
the Carver House and various other parts of the city. Raw water 
from the river showed a presence of 500 bacteria per cubic centimeter. 
After being treated at the filtering house the tests showed only 2 bacteria 
per c. c. The same results were obtained from the water taken from 
the Carver House. It is admitted by chemists that water containing 
250 or less bacteria to the c. c, is safe for drinking purposes. Our 
water contains only 2 bacteria per c. c. 

Numerous tests for coli— fever germs— failed to show a single germ 

in 10 cubic centimeters, which amount of water was inspected every 
day for a time. 



P. J. PURCELL, Manager 



Office in Wallis & Carley Block 
DOCK STREET 



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Miller, stopped at the Rosenblum 
home and took off Mrs. Wilding, Mrs. 
Rosenblum and the latter 's 3-year-old 
daughter, Pauline. 

The current was rushing through 
Vine street when the start was made 
from the house. The men at the oars 



surrounded house. A harder crash 
against the boat side than usual com- 
pletely unnerved her. She stood up 
screaming. Manning and the others 
cried to her to sit down or she would 
capsize the boat. She started to com- 
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made headway but slowly and the swift 
play of the water, the occasional crash 
of debris against the sides of the boat 
began to tell on the nerves of Mrs. 
"Wilding, already half hysterical from 
her two days' experience in the water- 



could regain her seat the boat over- 
turned and the entire party were strug- 
gling in the icy water. Mrs. Wilding 
went down at once in seven feet of wa- 
ter and was never seen alive again. 
In the meantime, the men were hav- 



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ing difficulty in saving Mrs. Rosenblum 
and the baby. One of them grabbing 
the woman and the other seizing the 
child, they swam from the Post Office 
steps, where the accident occured, to 
a fence on the corner. They held on 
to this for a moment and then one of 



Mrs. Rosenblum and Pauline were 
taken finally to safety. 

The body of Mrs. Wilding was recov- 
ered. It was found on Friday after the 
waters had gone down wedged in a pile 
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window and, returning, helped take 
Mrs. Rosenblum and Pauline into the 
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Four Reasons 

Why You Should Become a Member 

of the 

Protected Home Circle 

1. BECAUSE of its high standing as a safe, permanent, reliable 
institution 

2. BECAUSE it is non-sectarian, being founded upon Purity, 
Honesty and Charity — a platform broad enough for all mankind to 
institution. 

3. BECAUSE its ceremonies are instructive, dignified and im- 
pressive, teaching loyalty to the Home, to God, and to Country. Its 
initiation is intended to instruct and please rather than to frighten or 
embarrass candidates. 

4. BECAUSE of the high character of its membership, which is 
composed of the best men and women, physically, socially and morally. 

The Pioneer Reserve Fund 
Fraternal Order 

Founded at Sharon, Pa., August 7, 1886 



Claims Paid - - 
Reserve Saved - 
Monthly Income • 



$7,500,000 

1,290,000 

75,000 



SUPREME OFFIOEBS 



A. 0. McLean, Sharon, Pa. 

Judge A. W. Wmiams, Mercer, Pa.. 
Hon. W. S. Palmer, Sharon, Pa. — 
Hon. Alex. McDowell, Sharon, Pa._ 
J. A. McLaughry, Sharon, Pa. 



-President 



.Vice President 

Secretary 

Treasurer 

Solicitor 



Salom Hellman, Sharon, Pa,. 

J. 0. Skelton, Canton, O. 

Frank Gilbert, Sharon, Pa._ 



A. J. Martin, Jamestown, N. Y- 
P. D. Stratton, Akron, O. 



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